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Oct 19, 2020 · Learn about the origins and consequences of some of the most hair-raising urban legends, from Slender Man to Candyman. Discover how these myths evolved from folklore to online creepypasta and inspired real-life violence or fear.
- Rats in The Toilet Bowl
- Cropsey
- The Leaping Lawyer
- The Body Under The Bed
- The Maine Hermit
- Candyman
- The Fake Cop Trick
- The Legend of The Bunny Man
- The Legend of polybius
- Charlie No-Face
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You stagger into the bathroom at 3 a.m. to relieve yourself. Groggy with sleep, you lift the lid and position yourself over the toilet. You hear splashing. Turning on the light, you see a rat looking back at you from the bowl. You’re never the same again. Urban legends about animals in sewers have been a staple of scary stories, particularly the on...
For years, kids living in and around Staten Island raised goosebumps by relatingthe tale of “Cropsey,” a boogeyman who lived in the woods and made a nocturnal habit of disemboweling children. Parents no doubt eased their kids’ fears by telling them no such monster existed. But he did. In 1987, Andre Rand was put on trialand convicted for a child ab...
Sooner or later, Toronto residents hear the tale of a lawyer who had a peculiar fondness for running full-bore into his office windows to demonstrate how strong they were. This practice caught up with him eventually, as he crashed into a window and went sailing to his death. This hobby was actually practiced by Garry Hoy, a senior partner in an are...
Vacationing couples. Newlyweds. Disneyland guests. All have been the subject of an urban legend involving hotel occupants who fall blissfully to sleep, only to wake up to an awful stench coming from either under the bed or inside the mattress. Closer inspection reveals that a dead body has been stashed away. Presumably, not anyone who has died of n...
For decades, people who vacationed in central Maine’s North Pond area were puzzled by items that would go missing. Batteries and food from cabins, flashlights from camping tents. Rumors spread that a permanent fixture of the area would forage for sustenance and supplies. They were right. For 27 years, Christopher Knight lived alonein the woods, kee...
Released in 1992 (and reimagined in 2021), Candyman—based on a short story by Clive Barker—remains a potent horror tale of the revenge undertaken by a Black artist (Tony Todd) murdered in the 1890s for having a relationship with a white woman. While it’s not likely you’ll be able to invoke him by saying his name several times in a mirror, the pants...
You may have had an overly concerned parent or friend warn you of people impersonating police officers, using that veneer of authority to attack victims who have let their guard down. While there aren’t many who are in full patrol uniform or traveling in marked vehicles, there have been many documented cases of assailants posing as law enforcement....
If you lived in or around Virginia in the 1970s, you were probably exposed to the story of the Bunny Man. In the tale, an escaped mental patient takes to gutting bunnies and hanging them from a bridge underpass. Later, the man is said to have graduated to gutting and hanging teens in a similar manner. Locals were cautioned to never be caught near t...
Vintage video gamers have long traded stories about a coin-operated arcade game circa early 1980s Portland that had strange effects on its players. The game, titled Polybius, was allegedto have prompted feelings of disorientation, amnesia, game addiction, and even suicide. The machine’s cabinet was said to be painted entirely black, and it was rumo...
Imagine finding yourself outside and alone in the dark on a residential street. You hear footsteps approaching. Suddenly, a man with a misshapen face appears. You run, terrified beyond words. You spread the story of the man with no face throughout Pennsylvania. “Charlie No-Face” (also called the Green Man) was actually a man named Ray Robinson, and...
Do you believe in urban legends? These tales of terror may have some basis in reality, from rats in the toilet bowl to the Maine hermit. Learn about the facts behind these spooky stories and how they spread.
- The black ambulance. “I live in Romania and as a kid the most common legend was the “black ambulance” that would steal kids and harvest their organs and that kids’ bodies were to be found a few days later abandoned on a field with some money for the funeral.
- Death chair. “We have a chair that’s been untouched since the 1960s in our schools boiler room. The janitor swears that a boy got locked down there by these other kids the day before summer break and died from the heat.
- Makcik “keropok” “Its a legend about a lady going around door to door selling keropok. (a type of cracker) If you refuse to buy any, she releases a Pontianak (a vengeful ghost) into your house.
- Murder cabin. “Its not really a known creepy urban legend, but in the 1800s in the owyhee mountains in idaho there was a group of hunters staying in a cabin and after failing to come back to their families a search party was sent out to look for them, they found the cabin, locked from the inside, with the window also locked from the inside.
- Dudleytown. There’s an eerie town in Connecticut that locals refer to as a “dark vortex.” Rumor has it that if any visitor steals an artifact from the area, they will have a horrible curse put on them.
- Arizona’s Skinwalkers. Driving through a desolate desert at night is creepy enough. However, throw a shapeshifting, half-human monster into the mix and you’re bound to be scared silly.
- Seven Gates of Hell. Though the state of Pennsylvania may be scenic, it can also be super spooky. The Seven Gates of Hell is a modern tale that centers around a burnt-down asylum in a heavily wooded area of York County.
- The Watcher. A New Jersey urban legend that crept its way to viral fame in 2015, the Watcher is the tale of a young family moving into their dream home in Westfield.
Nov 17, 2022 · Learn about the scary stories that have been told and retold, passed down from one generation to the next, sometimes taking on new twists and turns as they go. Discover how urban legends have influenced movies, TV shows, games and fiction tropes.
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Sep 11, 2019 · Explore the eerie stories and myths that haunt different regions of the U.S. from Huggin' Molly to the Gurdon Light. Whether you believe them or not, these urban legends will send a chill down your spine.
Jun 16, 2020 · The 17 Scariest Urban Legends of All Time. Who needs sleep? By Mehera Bonner Published: Jun 16, 2020. Save Article. David Wall // Getty Images. Hello there! Are you looking for a reason not...
